Friday, February 1, 2013

Primary Research

Primary source 

  • Field research source (interviews, observations, survey, and experiments)
  • Primary texts which already published
1. Observation 
    First, know what you want to accomplish 
    Stay focused, pay attention to the big picture (context, time, frame, and surroundings)

2. Interviews
 Interviews are about people - wisdom, experiences, insights, opinons, concerns, struggles, their stories
              --- personal angle on your topic 

One option - consider about already-published interviews 
(authors, politicians, entertainers--- available in periodical articles,  books, websites, or Youtube)

Type of people to interview, how may interviews to do, interview medium

3. Survey

Work well to measure the attitudes, opinions, and experiences of representative members of identifiable groups of people 

Open-ended: in-depth data, but responses take time to complete 
Closed questions: yes/no, true/false, multiple choice, ranking, likert-scale (1-10/1-5) 

4. Primary texts
a poem, a novel, a letter, a diary, a speech, a painting, a piece of legislation, a film, art works, philosophical writings, historical documents, etc. 

Local Archives or Bracken library 


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